The average Series A–C engineering team burns $47 per engineer per month on a stack that wasn't designed to work together: Jira for tickets, Trello for kanban, Notion for docs, Loom for async updates, Slack threads for status, and weekly standups nobody prepared for. Zilzul collapses that stack into a single velocity-first workspace — at a line item your CFO can read in fifteen seconds.
Per-engineer monthly billing. Annual saves 18%. No seat minimums on Starter. No per-automation tax. No "contact us for pricing" on anything below 200 seats.
Everything one squad needs to run a clean two-week sprint without the Jira customization tax.
Cross-squad velocity, multi-workspace standups, and the SSO your security review will ask for on day one.
Org-level cycle-time analytics, audit log, and the API rate limits your platform team will actually hit.
Built from publicly listed 2024 prices for a 40-engineer team, billed annually. Your numbers may differ — paste your real invoices into our calculator and we'll rebuild this row by row.
| Line item | What you pay for it | Typical annual cost (40 eng) | What Zilzul replaces |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jira Software (Standard) | Ticket workflow, custom fields, sprint planning | $19,440/yr | Backlog, sprints, custom fields — native, no plugin tax |
| Trello (Business) | Lightweight kanban for non-engineering teams | $5,760/yr | Cross-functional boards, same workspace, one source of truth |
| Notion (Team) | Sprint docs, decisions log, meeting notes | $4,800/yr | Embedded docs that link directly to tickets, no copy-paste |
| Loom (Business) | Async video standups and explainers | $7,200/yr | Written async standups generated from commit & ticket activity |
| Slack (Business+) — standup threads | Daily status threads across 12 channels | $9,600/yr | One Slack digest per day, posted automatically, no scroll tax |
| Weekly standup meetings | 30 min × 40 eng × 50 weeks — reclaimed hours | $182,000/yr in eng time | 4.2 fewer meetings per engineer per week, Forrester-validated |
| Six-tool stack total | $228,800/yr | — | |
| Zilzul Team tier (40 eng, annual) | $9,120/yr | Median onboarding: 11 minutes to first sprint | |
Source: vendor list pricing as of Q1 2024, annual billing. Engineering time valued at $76/hour loaded cost, the median across our 2024 customer base. Numbers exclude the cost of context-switching between tools, which Forrester estimates at an additional 23% on top.
1.2 billion ticket events processed in the last twelve months. 99.992% uptime. NPS of 74 — top 1% of B2B SaaS, per Customer Gauge.
No. Work email is the only field. We send a single reminder seven days before the trial ends, then a final nudge the morning of. If you do nothing, the workspace freezes at read-only and your data is exportable as JSON or CSV for 90 days. No surprise charges — we've turned off auto-conversion entirely since 2022.
Anyone who creates, comments on, or transitions a ticket in a 30-day window. View-only stakeholders — PMs, designers, execs reading dashboards — are free, unlimited, and don't count toward your seat count. If an engineer goes on parental leave for two months, they're not billed for those two months. We auto-reconcile monthly.
Bi-directional sync from day one, not a one-shot import. Your existing Jira instance keeps running — we layer Zilzul on top, so engineers can adopt one squad at a time. We migrate epics, stories, custom fields, sprints, and comments with field-history preserved. Median full migration across our 2024 cohort: 3.4 days for a 50-engineer org, with zero downtime.
Both, with annual saving 18%. Mid-year upgrades are prorated to the day; downgrades take effect at renewal so finance doesn't have to issue credits. We send a 60-day renewal reminder with an honest usage report so the renewal conversation isn't a surprise. 142% net revenue retention, bootstrapped to profitability in 14 months — we're not chasing your upsell.
SOC 2 Type II (audited by Drata, zero exceptions in 2023), GDPR-compliant with a signed DPA on day one, SAML SSO and SCIM provisioning on the Team tier. A redacted SOC 2 report is shared on the first sales call under NDA. HIPAA and FedRAMP are not currently in scope — we'll be transparent about that rather than oversell.
On the Enterprise tier, yes. US, EU (Frankfurt), and AU (Sydney) regions available at contract signing, with data never leaving the chosen region at rest or in transit. Fully self-hosted Kubernetes evaluation is available for engineering teams that require it; talk to us about a 90-day proof-of-value.
Drop in a GitHub repo, invite two engineers, watch the async standup engine generate its first update from real commit activity. No sales call required to start. If your team is above 200 seats, the enterprise route is one click away — we'll have a redacted SOC 2 report in your inbox before the next standup.
